London: Printed for A. Millar, 1744. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Rothschild 56; Hayward 168. Armstrong (1709-1779 ) was a Scottish-born physician who published several poems and essays; this long poem in blank verse is by far his best-known work and went through numerous editions. The four parts are primarily... More
London: Printed for M. Cooper, 1743. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Rothschild 411; Hayward 166; NCBEL II, 537. Robert Blair’s famous and often re-printed work, the most notable edition of which was illustrated by William Blake in 1808. The Grave is one of the classic works of the “graveyard school”... More
Edinburgh: Printed by John Paterson, 1796. Edition: Second edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2021. The considerably expanded second edition of the works of Scottish poet Michael Bruce (1746-67), who did not publish a poem in his lifetime. A small selection of his works were compiled by a classmate, John Logan... More
Edinburgh: Printed and Sold by John and James Ainslies, Booksellers, [1788]. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Lowe, Arnott and Robinson, English Theatrical Literature, 1949. A defense by the young actor James Fennell (1766-1816) of his conduct on stage at Edinburgh's Theatre Royal, where he was interrupted with hissing and shouting... More
Air: Printed by John & Peter Wilson, 1792. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, pages 203-204; Lonsdale, Eighteenth Century Women Poets, pages 453-455. The only book by Janet Little (1759-1813), a "rustic poetess" (Lonsdale), who ran a dairy and worked as a housemaid. One of her... More
Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Vernor and Hood, 1800. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2028; not in Garside and Schöwerling. ¶ An autobiographical novel by Scottish poet Hector MacNeill (1746-1818) who was sent to the West Indies as a young man in hopes that he would find... More
Edinburgh: Printed by Balfour & Smellie, 1773. Edition: First and only edition. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 2053 (Hailes); ESTC T67787. ¶ A polite response, with some deferential corrections, to Lord Hailes and his History of Scotland, published earlier in 1773. More
Edinburgh: Printed by T. Ruddman, 1785. Edition: Second edition, preceded by the first of 1773. This is, in fact, the sheets of the first edition, with a new title-page and advertisement. Bibliographical References: NCBEL II, 406. ¶ An amusing miscellany first published by Walter Ruddiman (1719-1781) and here reissued by... More
Circa 1820. Edition: Apparently not published in this form. ¶ A traditional Scottish song, a shorter version of which Scott included in The Fortunes of Nigel (1822), page 476. James Hogg also had a version of this song in his The Jacobite Relics of Scotland (1819-1821). Scott collected his own... More
London, Paris & Melbourne: Cassell and Co., 1893. Edition: First edition. Bibliographical References: Beinecke 588. More
London: Longmans, Green, 1885. Edition: First edition, first issue binding. Bibliographical References: Beinecke 193; NCBEL III, 1005. ¶ Publisher’s presentation copy, with their round blind-stamp on the title page. More